Obama's Got a Cutesy Plan to Reconnect with Voters

President Barack Obama first said it two weeks ago during an impromptu walk from the White House to the Interior Department and then again during a quick coffee run to Starbucks just last Monday.

"The bear is loose," he said.

And now he’s modified his new-found catch phrase. At a town hall event in Minnesota on Thursday, he added for emphasis: "I'm feeling super loose today."

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In other words, it's becoming clear what this bear wants -- not an escape back to the wilderness, but some quality time with spectators standing just outside the fence.

"Look, I've been really looking forward to getting out of D.C.," Obama told the town hall crowd. "With Secret Service, I always tease them that I'm like a caged bear and every once in a while, I've got to break loose."

That means breaking loose to a Chipotle, as the President did earlier this week, famously reaching over the sneeze guard, breaching another barrier between him and everyday Americans.

After initially characterizing the fast food stops and walks as a president working through a little cabin fever, White House spokesman Josh Earnest hinted at a desire to reconnect with voters.

I have a different theory: He's an untested narcissist with depressive tendencies who feeds on adulation and his current series of enormous failures are puncturing his well-inflated ego.

So, like Sally Fields in Soapdish, he goes out to malls in New Jersey to be "accidentally" recognized.